A
call for reason and fairness in the case of
U.S. vs. Walter Anderson
"The
deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence."
– Thomas H. Huxley
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A
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"The
deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence."
– Thomas H. Huxley |
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What's New The
most recent petitions and orders in the Tax Court have been added.
Read the main article for information A
formal report, is available,
both as web pages and downloadable
originals, concerning
Walt's conditions of incarceration, along with
supporting Exhibits. Update
2/19/2012
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A Message From Walt Anderson Happy New Year. I hope that you have a positive year in 2012 Happy New Year 2012 Walt Anderson filed a Tax Court case back in September of 2007. The Tax Court waited almost a year just to assign a judge to the case, and ultimately assigned a Judge Gustafson, well known to be a right-wing Christian (and a graduate of Bob Jones University - which teaches creationism as science and teaches that factual science is blasphemy). The Tax Court case is still pending on appeal at this time. Other Tax Court cases filed around the same time, went to trial before a judge was even assigned to his case. In June of 2009, the IRS made admissions related to 3 prior tax years (1995, 1996 and 1997), which completely exonerated Walt Anderson of any tax crimes. Without those admissions, the IRS would have been required to go to trial and actually prove their claims. The IRS admitted, for those 3 prior years, that there was never any tax liability for over 99.85% of their financial claims and that Mr. Anderson never had any intent to commit a tax fraud. The IRS also has stated in their filing with the Tax Court that the issues for all 5 tax years were exactly the same. Thus, it makes no sense that the admissions for prior tax years (1995, 1996 and 1997) should not also be applied to the years that he was coerced into pleading guilty (tax years 1998 and 1999), but the IRS has argued against this. The resolution of these 2 final years remains to be resolved through the appeals court. The Tax Court process is in it's 5th year and Walt Anderson is still waiting for a resolution. All the papers have been filed by the parties long ago in the appeals court. That court set an oral hearing for late January of 2012, but now has withdrawn that date and has not yet scheduled any other date for a hearing. There is no legal requirement for a hearing. The court has all the information it needs to reach a decision, but instead has delayed. Walter Anderson is due to be released from the minimum security federal
prison camp to a halfway house on July 31, 2012. It would be very sad
if Walt Anderson were to be finally exonerated by the courts after he
has already completed his ordeal. I am looking forward to returning to the real world this year. More than anything else I have missed being visited regularly by my family, friends and associates. I will have a lot of hard work to recover from the damage done to my reputation and business activities by the government. I am working on some business ideas that I think could be viable and would also have a positive effect on individual freedom throughout the world. This was a terrible ordeal, which I will be glad to see in the past, but I will not forget what has been done to me. I will not forget that there are others being abused in the United States and throughout the world, by injustice. and I will be looking for ways to fight injustice. I am looking forward to traveling again and hope to be able to see everyone,
around the world, that I have not seen in so long.
Walt
is presently incarcerated at a minimum-security federal prison
camp in Fairton, NJ. He can receive mail (see "Contact" page),
but his phone time is limited to only 300 minutes per month.
He can now also receive e-mail by way of a special program implemented
for minimum-security inmates. If you are on Walt's approved visitors
list, you will be able to send and receive text-only (no attachments)
e-mails.
BACKGROUND Walt Anderson was indicted for tax fraud by the U.S. Federal Government and arraigned on February 28, 2005. This was the result of an investigation which had been going on for six (6) years (since the summer of 1999). Mr. Anderson’s legal counsel had been in touch with and cooperating with the government investigators and prosecuting attorneys since he learned about the investigation in March of 2002. In spite of an agreement between Anderson’s legal counsel and the prosecution to allow Mr. Anderson to self surrender after an indictment and to be released thereafter, the prosecution requested the court to hold Mr. Anderson. They claimed that he was intending to flee the country (even though he was arrested when returning to the US from a short trip to Europe). Mr. Anderson has lived and worked in the Washington, DC area his entire life. It is very unusual for a person not having any criminal legal issues prior to the tax investigation to be held until trial. The prosecution made a large number of completely false and misleading claims to a US Magistrate and trial Judge to convince them to hold Mr. Anderson in prison prior to his trial. Virtually all of the non-violent offenders are released prior to trial if they have some connection to the United States. THE TAX CHARGES Mr. Anderson founded and operated Mid Atlantic Telecom (based in Washington, DC) for ten (10) years. The company was sold to a large public company (Rochester Tel, later Frontier Communications) in 1993. Mr. Anderson arranged for a percentage of the proceeds of this sale to go to a charitable /not-for-profit organization which he created called Smaller World Trust. The Trust was set up outside the United States in the British Virgin Islands. This allowed the endowment of the Trust (provided by Anderson) to grow tax free. The significant and material issue in the tax case against Anderson is if he is the owner of the assets in the Trust or is simply the founder and manager of these assets. The US Government claims he should pay taxes on these assets which were held outside the United States. Anderson did not receive any portion of these assets and received only a small management fee (which he reported and paid taxes on) and the reimbursement of expenses for his activities related to the management of the Trust. Gold & Appel Transfer S.A. (Gold & Appel) was one of the Trust assets. Gold & Appel was a venture capital/business development corporation which invested and managed the initial endowment for Anderson. This initial contribution of around 6 million US dollars grew rapidly. SMALLER WORLD FOUNDATION Smaller World Foundation (previously the Smaller World Trust) was formed as a not-for-profit charitable organization with certain specific purposes. It was formed and endowed by Walt Anderson in 1993. The bylaws of the organization designated that it would build assets for 13 years and begin some distributions in 2006. Walt Anderson, the “grantor” of the original trust, has been an active participant in the management of the assets since the inception. Walt Anderson is specifically excluded from being a beneficiary of the Trust/Foundation by its bylaws/conditions.
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